Broadcom on Wednesday delivered a solid quarterly results while painting an increasingly upbeat picture around the future of its custom AI chip business. The report showed that despite fading enthusiasm for Broadcom's stock, its most important business still has the wind at its back. Revenue in the fiscal first quarter of 2026, which ended Feb. 1, was a record of $19.31 billion, ahead of the $19.1...
Broadcom on Wednesday delivered a solid quarterly results while painting an increasingly upbeat picture around the future of its custom AI chip business. The report showed that despite fading enthusiasm for Broadcom's stock, its most important business still has the wind at its back. Revenue in the fiscal first quarter of 2026, which ended Feb. 1, was a record of $19.31 billion, ahead of the $19.18 billion consensus forecast, according to estimates compiled by LSEG. On an annual basis, revenue rose 29%. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) increased 28% to $2.05, also outpacing expectations of $2.03, LSEG data showed. Adjusted EBITDA grew 30% to a record $13.13 billion in the quarter, beating the FactSet consensus of $12.76 billion. A measure of operating profitability, EBTIDA is short for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. AVGO 1Y mountain Broadcom's stock over the past 12 months. Bottom line We may be just scratching the surface of what's to come for Broadcom. Yes, the custom AI chip designer has already seen incredible growth during this artificial intelligence boom. However, Wednesday's earnings report and conference call make it clear there's plenty more on the way as the most important AI companies in the world look to Broadcom for help making specialized chips to further their ambitions. This report should hopefully tamp down at least some of the negativity around Broadcom's chip business — specifically, that some of its customers like Google might look to bring more of the silicon design process in-house, relying less on Broadcom's intellectual property and more on what's called "customer-owned tooling," or COT. That concern has been one of the reasons why Broadcom's stock has struggled to gain traction this year. CEO Hock Tan said on the call that Broadcom will not see competition in customer-owned tooling "for many years to come." His rationale: We're still in the land-grab stage of the AI computing race, and customers who want s...
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